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Furniture and homewares brand IKEA has topped Dezeen Hot List 2017 of the 500 people, brands and organisations our readers most wanted to read about this year. Retailer Muji takes second place while Peter Zumthor is the highest placed architect.

Donald Trump has crashed into the top five of the list, which is compiled entirely using audience data. He is the highest placed personality, as well as the highest new entry.

Although we only published only three stories about Muji, the minimalist Japanese lifestyle brand has shot into second place. This is because of the huge engagement each story achieved – our methodology takes engagement per post into account to ensure the list is not dominated by the entrants we write about the most.

Apple completes the top 10, with Adidas just outside at 11, up seven places from last year and 26 places above arch rival Nike, which has slipped to 37.

Tom Dixon is the highest-placed designer, coming in at 39 for the second year in a row. Last year's top designer, Oki Sato of Nendo, slips to second place at 41. Thomas Heatherwick, at 18, would be the highest-placed designer this year but as nearly all of his recent projects are architectural, we have this year categorised him as an architect.

The number of women in the top 100 actually fell from four last year to three this year, with the number of firms headed by both men and women remaining the same at seven. Overall in the 500-strong list there are just 32 women and 38 mixed firms, compared to 242 men.

Last year there were 24 women, 34 mixed firms and 190 men, although last year the list was shorter, with just 400 entries.

There appeared to be an increased interest in late architects and designers, with Mexican architect Luis Barragán a new entry at 28, Le Corbusier up 20 places at 51 and Mies van der Rohe up 58 places at 48. These expired modernists are joined by the exuberant Antoni Gaudí at 74.

The highest-placed design week is again Milan design week, although it has slipped from third place overall to 30. The Pritzker Prize breaks into the top 50, this year climbing to 47.

Milan is the top event and COS the top fashion brand

COS tops the fashion brands once again, although its ranking at 81 represents a steep fall from last year's 45. Tate is the leading institution at 28, with the new Design Museum at 40, up a massive 158 places compared to last year. With Serpentine Galleries at 49 and RIBA at 86, the top four institutions are all based in London.

We are presenting the list in a different way this year, creating a single, searchable list rather than multiple lists according to the categories such as architects, designers and so on. This allows us more flexibility in the way we categorise entrants.

The impact of this can be seen in the fact that critics, photographers and visualisation studios have made it onto the list for the first time.

Eight photographers made their debut on this year's list, with London-based Anton Rodriguez at 94, London-based Marc Goodwin at 114 and Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan at 173. Visualisation studios Forbes Massie and VER also crept onto the list, proving the continued popularity of hyper-realistic renderings.

In terms of nationality, no one country dominates at the top end of the list, with seven different countries represented in the top 10 (Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, America and the UK).

The UK has the most entrants, followed by the USA

However across the entire 500-strong list, the UK and the USA emerge as the heavyweights, with 104 and 69 entrants respectively. Japan is third with 22, the Netherlands fourth with 21 and Italy fifth with 19.

Dezeen Hot list is compiled by analysing every single visit to www.dezeen.com and every single search term to identity the topics that are most popular with readers. You can read about the methodology here. To create the 2017 list, we looked at audience data from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. Huge thanks to Peter Hedley, Jack Young and Oli Osborne for helping with the data crunching; the algorithm they wrote allowed us to considerably speed up the process.

Dezeen Hot List is the only design-industry ranking based on data

The resulting table of 500 entries is a compelling list of the hot topics and the movers and shakers in the design world over the past year.

To search the list below, simply enter the name of an architect, designer or brand in the search box. To sort the list by categories such as "architect" or "designer" enter the category name in the search box. Categories are: architect; designer; brand; school; institution; personality; artist; fashion; critic; photographer; and visualisation studio.

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